American Civil War historiography and publishing blogged daily by Dimitri Rotov.

3/08/2004

I had wanted to present to you on Saturday an entirely notional battlefield park, one that, constructed entirely of easements, exists on paper in a title company office somewhere. It sounds like sci-fi but it's our "reality" in Maryland. We'll close out the battlefield preservation topic for awhile on Wednesday with a "virtual" visit to that huge mess, one made by preservationsists pursuing the wrong objectives with the wrong tools, hitched into alliances where they worked at cross-purposes.